GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC
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One last hurrah from a forefather of funk.
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Nearly 60 years ago, Motown songwriter Clinton, with his band Parliament Funkadelic, threw down some funk songs, giving the genre in part its shape and style, and becoming a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in the process. Now with his band Parliament Funkadelic, the 77-yearold Clinton is kicking off his farewell tour in Milwaukee.
Clinton’s farewell boasts a stacked bill with Galactic, Fishbone and Miss Velvet and the Blue Wolf, three funk bands that owe some of their own success to Clinton’s influence.
7 p.m. Thursday, Miller High Life Theatre, 500 W. Kilbourn Ave.
$20 to $200 at the box office, (800) 7453000 and
ticketmaster.com. — Piet Levy, plevy@journalsentinel.com DMX
Tough-guy toasting and boasting with stylish musical backing. Earl Simmons, later DMX, began his musical career as a beatboxer and dedicated himself to becoming a full-on rapper after serving prison time. (He’s since had periodic legal troubles.) In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he scored hits that are still in wide circulation, like “X Gon’ Give It to Ya” and “Party Up (Up in Here).” He hasn’t put out a new album since 2012’s “Undisputed,” but recent singles demonstrate that the gruff-voiced DMX has held onto his hardcore style, and with his “Revenge of Hip-Hop Tour,” he’s going to prove it to you.
Eric B & Rakim, an all-time-influential hip-hop duo from Long Island, and MC Lyte, a Brooklyn pioneer of female hip-hop.
8 p.m. Friday, Riverside Theater, 116 W. Wisconsin Ave.
$44 to $105 at the box office, the Pabst Theater box office (144 E. Wells St.), (414) 2863663 and
pabsttheater.org. — Jon M. Gilbertson, Special to the Journal Sentinel THE 5, 6, 7, 8’s
Old-fashioned rock via a wild roundtrip journey to Japan. Japanese musicians have been known to devour American stuff from Miles Davis and Bootsy Collins to Dick Dale and Green Day, and the three Tokyo women of the 5,6,7,8’s have consumed rockabilly, surf, punk, garage and many other fast ’n’ loud ‘n’ fun rock subgenres. Briefly famous after an appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s first “Kill Bill” movie, the trio remains a weirdly good cross-cultural mix of trebly guitars, hair-shaking rhythms, appealingly rough vocals and snarling bad attitudes. How could that not be a fabulous mix for a live show?
Devils Teeth, Milwaukee rock ’n’ roll with powerful doses of heart, ham and humor.
8 p.m. Tuesday, Shank Hall, 1434 N. Farwell Ave.
$20 at the box office, (866) 468-3401 and